Are you eating with him? I find that with DD if I'm sitting down at the table with her, eating myself, she eats a lot better. Sometimes we play some games with food - she trys to put her food in my mouth and I might dance some food around her highchair - and meals can take at least 30 minutes to eat very little, but she does keep eating!

i use the loaded spoon coz i am feeding him rice with some steamed fish.. i usually have some steamed veg on the side so it keeps him busy for a bit, then he takes the loaded spoon with his right hand and into his mouth it goes..

but that was short-lived. sigh.

he is in the smearing stage if it's on his table..

i've just noticed that he puts food into his mouth (yay!), then chews on it (yay!), and.. instead of swallowing it.. he spits it back out! sigh. why is he doing this? is this a phase?

perhaps i should start another thread on what phases to expect.. so i don't keep starting a new thread every time something new happens :p

I think the spitting is normal. Finn will spit quite alot out and maybe pick it up and go again on it!! He is probably swallowing more than you think...the small bits that fall off in his mouth during chewing.

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